Jupiter - Summer Debut Single

Jupiter has announced that they will be releasing their first single,「Blessing of the Future」on July 24th! This single will be sold in two types:

Deluxe Edition

CD + DVD & photo booklet - 2,900 yen

CD Tracklist:

1. BLESSING OF THE FUTURE
2. SHOUT YOUR DESIRE
3. ARIA

DVD:
1. BLESSING OF THE FUTURE (music video)
2. BLESSING OF THE FUTURE (making of video)


Regular Edition
CD Only - 1,280 yen

CD Tracklist:

1. BLESSING OF THE FUTURE

2. SHOUT YOUR DESIRE

3. ARIA

Both versions are up for preorder on CDJapan along with a first press external bonus. The album art is yet to be revealed!

Sources: OHP, CDJapan

  

YOSHIKI x Stan Lee Blood Red Dragon Trailer

Video Source: yoshikiofficial @ YouTube

PENICILLIN - Vif Video Comment

Video Source: vifmusic @ YouTube

SURGE ~ outofdesperation - Introduction

Hello VK fans! It is my pleasure to introduce to you a fairly new band called SURGE - outofdesperation or SURGE for short. SURGE is a Brazilian Visual Kei band that first came to the scene in 2010. By the end of 2010 SURGE was already lined up to do their first concert at Otaku Spirits on Belo Horizonte. Since then they have steamrolled playing 9 more lives over the past few years with up to 2,000 attendees at one of the lives. It was at one such live, Anime BH 2011 with their impressive musical and visual quality that they attracted the interest of a Japanese label. Which they have been working closely and recording their first album! There is no release date yet but we will keep you posted when we have new information.

Their style is influenced by Visual Kei, Angura Kei and Nagoya Kei. The band consists of 5 members. Vocals and the leader is Kazuki Yagami. Guitarists are Ale Verukan and Smash. Bass is played by Dayrell. Last and certainly not least the drums are mastered by Tai Kioshi. In just a few years they have grown to 26,000 hits on their blog and have fans from all over the world including Japan, US, Germany and Russia just to name a few. Of course there are fans from many other countries but I would be here all day listing them. They have also been seen in the media. Just recently they had a feature on the well known VijuLoveCafe. SURGE has also had an article written in a Japanese magazine ZOUSS no.88. This is a great band, definitely worth a listen to and they have great potential.

Also there will be a new look reviled soon. One pic will be revealed at a time during this week. So keep a close eye on their Facebook page. While your checking out their Facebook page don't forget to watch their YouTube channel and follow them on Twitter.


Here is a video to give you guys a little taste of SURGE.

Sources: SURGE

DEATHGAZE - ALLURE PV

Deathgaze has released the PV for their new single 「ALLURE」.The video features a short commentary from the band in Japanese before and after the PV. Enjoy!

Source: Youtube

THE SOUND BEE HD @ Katsucon 19 Live Report



My group and I began watching the doors to the Main Events hall at about 8:00pm, two hours before the doors were scheduled to be open. Surprisingly, there weren’t many people lining up at the time. By 8:30pm, around 8 to 10 people had managed to start sitting against the wall near the double doors; half an hour later, that amount quickly tripled. Security guided people around the corridor, separating the press and VIP from the regular attendees; the attendees line stretched about ¾ of the way down the wide hallway. Despite the impressive gathering, as the doors opened, only about 1/3 of the ballroom was filled, leaving plenty of room for the chairs filling the second half of the concert hall. Press and VIP entered accordingly, walking calmly across the room. I remember seeing the chairs and thinking, Who would sit through this show? Moments later, the rest of the crowd stampeded to the stage.

The was no barrier, making it very easy for anyone up front to simply reach up and touch anyone or anything on the platform. I, barely being tall enough to look over the platform, stood on a small rail to my right, knowing very well that I would not be able to move. My legs were sandwiched between the audience and the rail guarding the convention's cameramen; I could hardly feel either leg. The room was dark with the familiar blue tint from the stage lights--all silence had been broken by the excited chattering of fans and sounds of working cameras.

The lights dimmed and the crowd quickly became frisky with anticipation as Roger Shackelford, Director of Tainted Reality, walked onto the stage acting as MC. He wore a gothic rock get-up, seeming to match the performing band’s style fairly well. He yelled into his microphone, addressing the crowd and getting them revved up for the show by telling us a story.

In 2005, he had attended Katsucon as a regular attendee himself for the performance of the band Psycho le Cému. He reminisced about how amazed he was by their concert, pointing to a member of the audience to indicate where he was standing those 8 years ago. He discussed his dream to be standing on this very same stage and how that dream has come true.

When he had finished, everyone had cheered, full of emotion and approval of his accomplishment before Roger managed to introduce the band to the stage. I had never been so happy to have earplugs before in my life as I heard the fans overpower the sound of the introductory SE when the band took over the stage. Despite the enormous speakers, the noise from the crowd often managed to overpower the sound from the speakers.

THE SOUND BEE HD is a band that you really need to see and hear live in order to understand! In my personal opinion, they are so much better to experience rather than listen to.

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DIR EN GREY - Unraveling 60 second Teaser

Source: Hino Grey

Sol Ardour - The Waxing Moon PV

Source: Shola via Facebook
Video Source: SolArdour @ YouTube
Thanks for the info, Shola!

LIPHLICH - 4th Single Details + 2nd Full Album Release

We just reported about LIPHLICH's 4th Single yesterday and today, the band updated their blog with more details and announced to release their 2nd full album!

Single 「マズロウマンション」 (Mazurou Mansion) will be available on July 24th in two different types:

Limited Edition
1890 yen, including CD + DVD

Tracklist:
1. マズロウマンション (Mazurou Mansion)
2. Room 612

DVD:
One-Man performance "LUST FOR LIFE" of April 28th @EDGE Ikebukuro

Regular Edition
1575 yen, including CD only

Tracklist:
1. マズロウマンション (Mazurou Mansion)
2. Room 612
3. 愛は死なずに3度落ちる (Aizoku Shinazu Ni 3 Do Ochiru)

Their 2nd full album will be out in September 2013 including PV and 12 tracks. More details on the still untitled release will be available soon.

Source: LIPHLICH Blog

Codomo Dragon - "RIGHT EVIL" PV Preview

Video Source: BandsaidYT @Youtube

LIPHLICH - New Single Release

 

Great news from LIPHLICH!
It was announced today that the band is going to release their 4th Single entitled 「マズロウマンション」 (Mazurou Mansion) on July 24th!
More details to be available soon.

Source: Vocalist Kuga and Guitarist Takayuki via Twitter

xTRiPx - New Look

Vocalist Yo-shiT

Guitarist K

Drummer Ena

Source: OHP

Introducing: HOSHI★FURU

Left to Right: Ba. Nick, Ds. Danny, Vo. Maria, Gt. Nan

HOSHI★FURU is a band based in Canada and originally began with a visual kei influenced in 2008. They went through constant line-up changes during this period with the only consistent members being Maria on vocals and Nan on guitar, having recently welcomed Nick on bass and Danny on drums as official members in 2012. Although over the years they began to lose their visual kei, they remained influence by Japanese rock as a whole as well as picking up other genres such as hardcore punk, metal, and screamo.

Their influences in the Japanese music scene include LUNA SEA, DIR EN GREY,and Utada Hikaru while their strong western influences are Comeback Kid and Underoath. Nan composes all of the music and Maria writes all of the lyrics and creates most of the vocal melodies and screams.

HOSHI★FURU only began to take activities seriously in 2012 and were signed to the independent record label Underly shortly after releasing a free downloadable single entitled "Hatsukoi", which is a punk cover of Utada Hikaru's "First Love". They released their self-titled debut EP in March 2013, which includes the songs "Anata, "Sono Hibi Deshita", "Hitoribocchi", "Kiwoong Kim", and "Starfall Paradise" as well as their first PV "Kiwoong Kim" shortly after the release of their self-titled debut EP in March 2013.

HOSHI★FURU have been performing at anime conventions across Ontario and Quebec, which includes an appearance at Canada's premier fan run anime convention Anime North in 2012 and, thanks to J-Rock North Promotions, they will be performing at Anime North for a second year in a row on Friday, May 24th

UPCOMING SHOWS:

ARTISTIC ANARCHY PRESENTS... PHORMATIVE_2.0 [ANIMEDIA] - Thursday, May 23rd (Izakaya Sushi House, 294 College St, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1R9)
ANIME NORTH 2013 - Friday, May 24th (Toronto Congress Centre, 650 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ontario, M9W 1J1)

RELEVANT LINKS:

EP - http://hoshifuru.bandcamp.com
"KIWOONG KIM" PV - http://youtu.be/Cq5_uu-lt5Q
UNDERLY - http://www.underlymusic.com
Source: Official Facebook Page, Official Twitter

Noiz Give Away Winner

Sorry for the wait but we now have our Noiz give away WINNER! Congratulations to @arigach! please send us a DM via twitter so we can make arrangements to send your prize. Once again congratulations. As for everyone else please look forward to our next give away!

Kameleo - "Kimi to now." Full PV

Video Source: DangerCrueRecords @Youtube

Souiumono - New Look

Members:

Vo. Sacci

Gt. nono

Gt. Hirobucky

Ba. Nuppe

Ds. Kamui

Source: OHP, Anna via chatbox
Thanks for the link, Anna!

VKH will be changing domain names!

We have some good news for you all:
As of Friday, VKH will be changing domain names to visualkeiheaven.us!
Please help spread this news and alert your friends!